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[Jan. 27th, 2006|03:30 pm]
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Hey, sorry if this kind of post isn't allowed, If it's not you can just delete it, but I made this purse a while back and since I need the cash, figured I'd sell it on eBay. It's the actual record cover sewn into a purse (yeah, obviously the one on the right.) All the other details about it are on the auction listing. -M |
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[Oct. 3rd, 2005|10:53 am]
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Clifford Lee Burton 2-10-62........9-27-86 R.I.P.
"Cliff was so completely honest to himself and the people around him. He hated all this being-put-on-a-pedestal bullshit."
---Lars Ulrich - 1986
"To this day, I think of him every day. It's really strange. It's something that pops into my head every day and I'm constantly reminded of it because he played such a large part in out lives."
---Kirk Hammett - 1988
"He was a wild, hippie-ish, acid-taking, bell-bottom-wearing guy. He meant business, and you couldn't fuck around with him. I wanted to get that respect that he had. We gave him shit about his bell-bottoms everyday. He didn't care. "This is what I wear. Fuck you." He loved music. He was really intellectual but very to the point. He taught me alot about attitude."
---James Hetfield - 1993
Back in late 1982, it was decided that bassist Ron McGovney wasn't really pulling his weight in Metallica. One of Metallica's peer bands up north making the rounds about this time was Trauma. In addition to being a favorite Bay-area club circuit draw, the band was gaining recognition through their one-song demo, featuring "Such a Shame," that eventually was transferred to vinyl on Metal Massacre II. More noteworthy, however, Trauma possessed within its ranks "the most headbanging bassist" Lars and James had ever seen - Cliff Burton. They initially spotted him during a live Trauma show at LA's Troubador.
"We heard this wild solo going on and thought, 'I don't see any guitar player up there.' It turned out it was the bass player, Cliff, with a wah wah pedal and this mop of hair. He didn't care whether people were there. He was looking down at his bass playing."
James Hetfield
Burton, who grew up with Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin near San Francisco, was a cross between Clint Eastwood and E.F. Hutton: Didn't say much, but when he did, people listened. Especially Hetfield and Ulrich, who were puppies with peach fuzz and acne when they relocated Metallica to the Bay Area in 1983 to be closer to Cliff. Cliff Burton had flavor: he wore bell-bottoms, read H.P. Lovecraft, studied piano, and even went to junior college. He drove a 1972 VW stationwagon. He was the son of Jan and Ray Burton, two San Francisco hippies and he still had those hippie ideals; he liked his beer, liked his pot or whatever, liked to chill out, and he was really laid-back, relaxed and happy.
He lived with his family in San Francisco, and for three and a half years he worked hard to take Metallica to the top. After replacing Ron McGovney in late 1982, Cliff instantly made a name for himself with his classic "wind- mill" style of of thrashing on stage, with his hair flying out in all directions, and with his outdated, completely "unfashionable" image. With his hair hanging straight down from him head, he seemed eternally clad in a pair of bell-bottom jeans and a faded denim jacket. If it was cold, he wore a flannel shirt underneath.
Offstage, he was the ultimate laid-back Californian, a total opposite from his wild, aggressive onstage attack. His sense of humor was great, as were his bass solos and everything about his stage presence. He was the most visual of all the band onstage, he would just go wild. The best example of how cool and unflappable Cliff was happened in the summer of 1985 at their Castle Donnington Festival appearance (August 17, 1985). Having ducked beneath a flying pear which ended up embedding itself in his bass bin, Burton coolly sauntered over to his stack, picked up the pear, took two bites out of it and hurled it back into the crowd.
For a while there it really looked as if 1986 was gonna be Metallica's year. After all, their third LP,_Master of Puppets_, had literally taken the music world by storm and, in doing so, had made the band virtual mega-stars in the eyes of the metal-doting public. Metallica had finally "made it", and it seemed that nothing could halt their inexorable rise to even greater glory. Then, during the European leg of the group's phenomenally successful Master of Puppets world tour, something went wrong - catastrophically wrong.
Fresh from their triumphant UK tour, Metallica had headed once more for Scandinavia where they'd played three shows at the Olympen in Lund (September 24, 1986), the Skedsmohallen (September 25,1986) in Oslo and at the Sonahallen in Stockholm (September 26, 1986).
It was approaching dawn on Saturday, the 27th of September 1986, and Metallica's two tour buses were making their way along a godforsaken road that lies somewhere between the Scandinavian cities of Stockholm and Copenhagen. Apart from these vehicles, the route was deserted- there was noone else traveling at that unearthly hour of the morning. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, just before 6:15 a. m., one of the coaches swerved violently to its right and started careening wildly down the wrong side of the road. It was out of control, and a crash was inevitable.
The bus's brief but horrific excursion came to a halt some 60 feet further up the tarmac. By this time, though, the vehicle was on its side and lying in a ditch by the side of the road near the small Swedish town of Ljungby.
During the unavoidable confusion that followed, the vast majority of the overturned bus's passengers managed to scramble free of the wreckage. Those that emerged included three of the four members of the band. In truth, the survivors had been extremely lucky, as they'd all somehow managed to escape with little more than minor injuries and shock.
Swedish police arriving on the scene of the crash immediately arrested the driver as a matter of routine, but later released him without charging him after further investigation revealed that the cause of the crash was black ice on a nasty bend in the road.
Unfortunately, however, there had been one fatality in the accident...... what is more, the deceased individual turned out to be one of the group. So, tragically, in the short space of those few dreadful seconds on that lonely Swedish road, Metallica's dreamlike existence was suddenly transformed into a hellish nightmare..their 24 year-old bass player, Cliff Burton, was dead.
"I saw the bus lying right on him. I saw his legs sticking out. I freaked. The bus driver, I recall, was trying to yank the blanket out from under him to use for other people. I just went, 'Don't fucking do that!' I already wanted to kill the guy. I don't know if he was drunk or if he hit some ice. All I knew was, he was driving and Cliff wasn't alive anymore."
James Hetfield -1993
The dazed group dealt with their anxiety in the manner they were most familiar with: drinking. James broke two hotel windows and screamed, venting his rage. Kirk and his guitar tech, John Marshall, were so shaken that they left the light on in their room that night. On September 29th, James, Lars and Kirk returned to the United States.
"I wasn't too angry in the beginning. I was obviously grieving, but the anger started setting in when I realized that it's not new that people in rock-n-roll die, but usually it's self-inflicted in terms of excessive drink or drug abuse. He had nothing to do with it. It's so useless. Completely useless."
Lars Ulrich, January 1987
The gap left by Cliff's death yawned across the pages of tributes run by the music press the week after the tragedy. In Kerrang!, for example, advertisements were taken by friends and fans alike; a bleak, black double- page spread ran messages from the Zazulas ("The Ultimate Musician, The Ultimate Headbanger, The Ultimate Loss, A Friend Forever"), and Anthrax ("Bell-Bottoms Rule!! Laugh it up, We Miss You"), while Music For Nations also took out a page ad which simply read: "Cliff Burton 1962 - 1986." The pain ran deep.
His family and friends remembered him as a "world class local boy" with a love for Johann Sebastian Bach, Mexican food and his hometown. His parents said he was "an appreciative and thoughtful son. Because of his performing, he'd sleep all day and stay up all night and never wake us up. Once, a little boy came up to the door, early in the morning and wanted Cliff to sign his shirt. So Cliff staggered to the door - and said "Sure, of course I'll sign it."
" I once called him up and said 'How do you like being a rock star?', and he was furious. He asked me never to refer to him that way again," said his sister, Connie.
At the conclusion of his memorial service (October 7, 1986), "Orion," from the band's _Master of Puppets_ album, was played. The elaborate instrumental made a fitting tribute for the young bassist, since, as James Hetfield recalled, Burton was Metallica's most educated musician and "Orion" was largely his composition.
Cliff was also responsible for expanding the scope of Metallica's lyrical themes. Along with Kirk, he admired the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Now, I know that it has been nine years since Cliff's death and I know that there's an old aphorism that is frequently uttered following such tragic bereavements, and it is this: time heals. Simple, but in most cases true. It goes without saying that time should never be allowed to diminish or erase the happy memories we share of someone who is no longer with us. Unfortunately, though, we are often guilty of letting this happen. For this reason, I'm sure that you won't mind joining me in a brief moment of remembrance for one of the rock world's most tragic losses ever.
I'm going to kick off by stating a simple but startlingly chilling truth... Cliff Burton died young....much too young. There is nothing that we can do or say that will ever alter this totally wretched fact. I guess I could resort to the old saying :" Only the good die young," but I won't, because it's such a stupid, empty and totally faceless adage. It says, and means, absolutely nothing, and certainly doesn't make it any easier to accept the dreadful fact that a life has been cut unneccessarily short. Cliff was in his prime, a fine bassist in one of the world's most popular heavy metal bands.Cliff possessed a truly great talent, and there is no doubt in my mind that he was the foremost bassist in his particular genre of music. Musically, his presence was felt in his aggressive playing, either doubling the guitar lines or adding syncopated counterlines. Maintaining a heavy, relentless bottom-end pulse as a component of the rhythm section as well as a strong intuitive sense of embellishment in melodic fills, Cliff represented the ultimate thrash bassist. He was the perfect foil for the energetic and propulsive drum bombast of Lars and the pulverizing crunch-chording of James and Kirk.
"The only person who was able to figure out a time and write it on a piece of paper was Cliff. He had an immense knowledge of timing, musical harmonies and music theory in general."
Kirk - 1987
"Cliff's taken classes in school on music theory, things like mixing harmonies together. I think he took a junior college course. "
James - 1986
Cliff was also a fine and inventive soloist, and his clever use of distortion and wah-wah in his "(Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth" showpiece made it one of the highlights of the band's live set. More importantly, Cliff was one hell of a nice guy and a much-loved figure in the Metallica camp. He always went out of his way to talk to the band's fans- no matter how tired he was. He was certainly the most unanimously appreciated by the band members as well as by the public.
Although he is no longer with us, his memory and his music will live on forever. As a personal tribute, I always listen to his music on this day and think about what happened and I just wonder why it had to happen.
"You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored."
The late Cliff Burton
Question: What would you say to a band that's just starting out on the rock scene today?
Cliff : Quit!
"The only person who was able to figure out a time and write it on a piece of paper was Cliff.
He had an immense knowledge of timing, musical harmonies and music theory in general."
---Kirk - 1987
"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate...
Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."
---Cliff Burton---
"Cliff Burton was the man who had that wild spirit that makes a band like Metallica a quality band. He wasn't only the bass player, or someone else in the band who co-write the songs, he was the man who made Metallica reach the sky. After his death, Metallica sold their souls for fame and fortune, things that he would never wanted to deal with. He'd never allowed all that "Black Album" to happen, and neither that damn "Load" thing. When Metallica lost their bass player, they also lost their soul."
---Lars Ulrich---
"This guy with wild, wild red hair flying all over the place and a Rickenbacker and a real distinct bass style and I thought to myself; this guy is fuckin' wild!"
---Kirk Hammett---
"...we came up here and played with Cliff, who just blew the doors off of anyone we've ever played with.
He's the new Steve Harris of metal".
---Dave Mustaine--
"We always miss Cliff, but he is kind of on the record. (...And Justice for all)
The song 'To live is to die' is really based on a number of riffs that Cliff wrote a couple of years ago.
It's kind of cool to have something written by Cliff in the new album."
---Lars Ulrich---
"People probably thought,
'Oh, they're not going to do the heavy lyrics now because of what happened.'
Man, those lyrics mean a lot more to me now."
---James Hetfield, after Cliff's death--
"He was always against looking too posey, he was always into just looking natural."
---Kirk Hammet---
"In Denmark while recording Master of Puppets, we hung out a lot.
We'd go out and play poker for 8 hours straight after being up for 24 hours.
We'd find a seafood restaurant that was open,
eat raw oysters and drink beer,
scream at the natives while we were drunk...
that's some of my best memories of him."0
---Kirk Hammet---
"When I started, I decided to devote my life to it
and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer"
---Cliff Burton---
"My influences would be...
...Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, Geddy Lee of Rush, Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath and Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke."
"Favorite Composer and Bands...
Bach, Pink Floyd, The Misfits, Samhain, ZZ Top, Thin Lizzy, R.E.M., Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Velvet Underground and Judas Priest."
---Cliff Burton...
"Why should we change onstage?"
"We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way."
- The Late Cliff Burton
"...there's somebody in that garage that hasn't been discovered that's better than you are."
...Cliff Burton in an interview...
“We do what we wanna do--if they consider that selling out… Whatever.”
...cliff Burton...
"I felt that he was an extraordinary young man, and the fact that he was my son made it all the more satisfying to me."
"He set his goals and made the choices of how to obtain those goals, and he did it."
"He felt that with Metallica there was a possibility of success."
"He stated that, "Every once in a while we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do." "We" was not "I."
"It was always we. He always took the other three fellows' points of view."
"I can only admire and love the kid, along with Kirk, James and Lars. They were a marvelous team."
"He was doing something he definitely enjoyed and got that fulfillment from his job."
"It's just too bad that his part of it was terminated."
...Ray, Cliffs Dad in an interview with Cliff's parents By Harald O. as originally published in Thrash Metal (US) and RockHard (Germany)
"Oh, God!! There are no prouder parents in the world! Nowhere is anybody prouder of their son."
"His achievements definitely....
But the kind of person he was along with it never changed, which I, Dave and Jim think we're even more proud of."
"He always used to say, "Thank you, Mom 'n' Dad, for everything. Thank you for the support throughout the years."
"He never got bigheaded."
...Jan, Cliffs Mom in an interview with Cliff's parents By Harald O. as originally published in Thrash Metal (US) and RockHard (Germany)
"He didn't take music lessons until he was 13, after his brother died."
"He said to a couple of people, "I'm gonna be the best bassist for my brother."
"We didn't think he had too much talent at all; we had no idea!"
"We just thought he'd plunk, plunk along, which he did at first; it was really not easy for him at first."
"Then, about six months into the lessons, it started to come together."
"I thought, "This kid's got real potential," and I was totally amazed 'cause none of the kids in our family had any musical talent!"
"He took lessons on the boulevard for about a year, and then he totally outgrew him [the teacher]...
...and went to another place for a couple of years and outgrew him, too."
"Then he went to the school and took lessons from a very good jazz bassist, a very fine musician."
"He was the one who made Cliff take Bach and Beethoven and Baroque [music], and made him learn to read music and stuff like that."
"He was with him for a long time, and then he really outgrew him, too."
"He really got so good that he didn't need that anymore. He really did sit down and study and play Bach. He loved Bach."
...Jan, Cliffs Mom in an interview with Cliff's parents By Harald O. as originally published in Thrash Metal (US) and RockHard (Germany)
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| I know it's a day late... |
[Sep. 28th, 2005|07:57 pm]
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I know it's a day late, but I was unable to post yesterday.
the quetion I have is why didn't ANYONE post about this?
Yesterday made 19 years that MetallicA lost their best bassist ever.
I took a few moments out of my day yesterday to listen to orion, and reflect on Cliff.
May he rest In peace.
Pleasent something, people.
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[Apr. 16th, 2005|02:16 am]
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hello all.
when a man lies
he murders some part of the world
these are the pale deaths
which men miscall their lives.
all of this i cannot bear to witness any longer
cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?
i first heard this song and read the lyric ten years ago. to this day i find it to be profound. it stands as my favorite lyric in all of metallica. the sad thing is that the man who wrote it, cliff isn't here any longer to give us more of those beautiful words. it is a poem, a song, and a prayer. i wish that cliff was still with us to give us more of these words, and of course his monumental bass playing. he was taken from us far too young, and at the hands of a dipshit who didn't know how to drive.
i got into metallica after hearing the black album, and from there heard cliff, and i was astounded. james said it right. he was the major rager on the four string mother fucker, lol.
every so often, i go back and listen to that song. and it makes me yearn for the sounds of cliff on a bass, and for his magnetic presence.
LONG LIVE CLIFF BURTON!
CLIFF 'EM ALL
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[Apr. 14th, 2005|06:15 pm]
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Sorry peoples, I havn't been on live journal in a while...It seems i owe you some answers.
1. How did James and Lars meet? through an add magazine called the Recycler.
2. Where did they get there name from(MetallicA that is)? A friend of Lars' was going back and fourth trying to name his new fanZine, and he asked Lars if he should name it MetallicA or Metalblade. Lars told him Metalblde was the way to go and stole MetallicA.
3. Who came up with the logo? After meeting with the friend Lars told him about the name, Jamez the scribbled down the Logo.
4. What makes the first release of Kill 'Em All special? There were two songs that appeared on the album that were later cut. Am I evil, and Creeping Death.
5. what is track 6 on ride the lightning? Escape 
Now here's what I'm looking for, I have tested you now it's your turn to test me... Who ever stumps me, I will personally send you a MetallicA prize...
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[Mar. 26th, 2005|11:00 pm]
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Answers:
1. Name every person who's been with MetallicA.
Cliff Burton, James Hetfeild, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted, Rob Trujillo, Rob McGovney, Dave Mustaine, Deamon Fillips(for three shows), (side note Lloyd Grant played on a song for there first demo, but was never a member of the band, he was a special guest, and Bob Rock was never a real member.)
2. What is the First official lineup of MetallicA?
Technicly speaking the Official line up was nothing more than James and Lars, but the first official full band line up was James. Lars, Dave, and Ron.
3. What type of bass did Cliff play?
rickinbocker
4. What (or who) is this picture of?
spastic children
5. What is the third track on LOAD?
The house that jack built
Thankyou everyone who answered the questions. Which I think was just about everyone again. Lets see how you do on these next 5.
1. How did James and Lars meet?
2. Where did they get there name from(MetallicA that is)?
3. Who came up with the logo?
4. What makes the first release of Kill 'Em All special?
5. what is track 6 on ride the lightning?
Untill next time...later all... |
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[Feb. 26th, 2005|07:37 am]
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Hello all and welcome to my brand new MetallicA community. I'm hopeing if things go well that eventually I'll be able to do some trivia games. Like I could post one question a week and at the end of the month I could send the winner a MetallicA prize, and the two runner ups, that sort of stuff...
We shall see... Any who I hope you like the community, and have fun ^.^ |
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